Old Acropolis Museum
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)Μουσείο Ακρόπολης | |
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| Established | 1865 |
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| Dissolved | 2007 |
| Location | Athens, Greece |
| Type | Archaeological |
| Website | No official website |
The Old Acropolis Museum (
New Acropolis Museum is now built at the foot of the Acropolis. In June 2007 the old museum closed its doors so that its antiquities could be moved to their new home, which opened on 20 June 2009.[1]
History
The museum was home to many of the Greek world's ancient relics found in and around the Acropolis of Athens since excavations started. It was designed by architect Panagis Kalkos and was constructed between 1865 and 1874. It was expanded in the 1950s to a modern design executed by Patroklos Karantinos, a Greek modernist architect.[2]
The Acropolis Museum housed stone
sculptures and bronze remains[3] from the monuments of the Acropolis and some artifacts that are excavated on the site. The building is located in the south-east corner of the Acropolis. In 1974 prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed the construction of a new museum. Initial plans were made under Melina Mercouri and the ground of the Makrygianni former military hospital and Gendarmerie
barracks was chosen. The first competition was criticized and a new competition proclaimed some years later. In 2007 the old building was closed to prepare the move to the new building.
The new building
A
new building was designed by Bernard Tschumi
and Michali Fotiades, and constructed from 2002 to 2007 on Areopagitou Street. It was inaugurated on Saturday, June 20, 2009, and the entrance fee was 1 euro for the first year, and 5 euros thereafter.
Damage to the Acropolis
Drainage pipes from the Old Acropolis Museum have been attributed for causing much of the decay of the Acropolis.[4]
Collections
The museum housed artifacts that were found on the site of the
Erechtheum, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Eleusinion, the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, the Old Temple of Athena, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the sanctuary of Asclepius or Asclepieion, the Temple and Theatre of Dionysus Eleutheureus, and the Odeon of Pericles.[5]
Highlights
- Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis
- Caryatids
- Kouros and Kore
- Kritios Boy
- Metopes of the Parthenon
- Moscophoros
- Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
- Parthenon Frieze
- Temple of Athena Nike frieze
See also
Notes
- ^ "New Acropolis Museum". Retrieved Mar 28, 2023.
- Commercial Bank of Greece
- ^ The Bronze Fragments of the Acropolis Bather A.G. The Journal of Hellenic Studies (13), 1892 - 1893, pp. 124-130
- ^ "Greek Tragedy: Acropolis Is 'Decaying'". Retrieved Mar 28, 2023.
- ^ "Ministry of Culture and Sports | Acropolis of Athens". odysseus.culture.gr. Retrieved Mar 28, 2023.
External links
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